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Crowds moved in and out of hundreds of art venues of all stripes around Jersey City this weekend for the 2011 Artists Studio Tour.

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Get a head-start on the Studio Tour festivities tonight with the official opening party at Mana Contemporary (6 pm), an opening reception for the Vital [...]

If you have trouble getting around but still want to check out some art from the scores of exhibitions and open studios around Jersey City this weekend, there’s an answer: Sunday’s guided bus tour. The wheelchair-accessible bus will travel all around the city for six full hours on Sunday, making six stops for folks to [...]

When the annual Artists’ Studio Tour kicks off this weekend, Pro Arts will be at the helm – as it has been almost since the very beginning. But this year it will be led a new executive director, Sean Hollingsworth. An event producer with a deep love for the arts, Hollingsworth’s job is to build on the group’s existing work and, he hopes, make the nonprofit an even more vital part of the arts scene.

As we have since 2009, JCI has once again created Jersey City’s only digital map for this weekend’s Artists Studio Tour. Check it out!

The finished canvas from The City Love Project in New York City UPDATED SEPTEMBER 27 at 1 PM: The event has been moved to Friday due to Thursday’s chances of rain. Jersey City this week will become the fifth American city to host the interactive public art show known as the City Love Project (CLP), [...]

“I have lived in Jersey City since 1995, and I have been involved with the art community the entire time,” Michelle Vitale Loughlin says. “It is a great environment and there are so many people that are here already, or moving into the city, that appreciate art; WOOLPUNKstudios just adds another layer to city’s established creative fabric.”

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY The City Love Project, an interactive public art show, comes to Jersey City today, stopping in McGinley Square (9 am), Journal Square (1 pm) and [...]

Do you know the feeling when you unexpectedly stumble upon a hidden treasure, and it fundamentally changes — but completes — your day? That’s what happened to yours truly when this weekend I decided to take an inquisitive peek into the windows of 80 Grand Street and find out what the auspiciously illuminated colors meant. [...]

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Legendary folkie Tom Paxton gets the Brennan Coffee House’s fall lineup into gear with a performance tonight (7:30 pm), while The Alex Meixner Band plays [...]